Nut Crescents Recipe

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Ready in: 1-2 hrs
recipe difficulty 3/5

Difficulty: 3 (1=easiest :: hardest=5)

Serves/Makes: 5 dozen

Ingredients:
2 cups Unsalted softened butter or margarine
6 tablespoons Confectioners' sugar
2 Egg yolks
4 cups Flour, sifted before measuring
1 cup Ground or finely crushed almonds, pecans or walnuts
***TOPPING***
2 Egg whites
1 cup Ground or finely crushed almonds, pecans or walnuts
1/2 cup Granulated sugar
Confectioners' sugar for sprinkling

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Directions:

Cream butter and confectioners' sugar in large mixer bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolks. Beat in flour and 1 c ground nuts until mixed. (Dough can be refrigerated up to several days; soften slightly before shaping cookies.)

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Have ungreased baking sheets ready.

For topping, beat egg whites lightly with fork in shallow dish until frothy. Mix 1 cup nuts and granulated sugar in separate shallow dish.

Roll a generous teaspoon of the dough in the palm of your hands into a crescent shape. Dip top of crescent in egg white and then into nut-sugar mixture. Place crescents on baking sheets about 1 inch apart. Bake until bottoms are golden, 10 to 12 minutes. Cool on pan a few minutes, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.

Sprinkle lightly with confectioners' sugar before serving.

This recipe from CDKitchen for Nut Crescents serves/makes 5 dozen